Free your stuff
Free Your Stuff (for example, “Give away what you don't need” ) is an initiative to give away everyday or domestic goods that are no longer needed and thus to recycle them sensibly.
Basic idea
The idea goes back to the Romanian student Radu Burtescu, who was the first to set up a Facebook group in Luxembourg in 2011 with the aim of giving away everyday items that are no longer needed. Simon Neumann, a politics student from Mainz , took up this idea and, following a corresponding Facebook group from Trier , founded a group in Mainz which already has around 40,000 members.
Current development
The idea is taken up many times. Facebook groups have been set up in other regions and countries such as Paris , Mainz, Copenhagen , Kaiserslautern , Mannheim , Berlin , Budapest , Malmö and Stuttgart .
In some places so-called "give boxes" have been created in which things can be put and taken out free of charge, such as in Schleiz or Worms .
The idea of giving away of non-food -Artikeln will be extended. In the Berlin districts of Kreuzberg and Prenzlauer Berg , for example, 21 refrigerators were set up, which are intended to provide food that is no longer needed but still edible free of charge.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Free your Stuff Trier - an economy of giving away - 5vier.de. In: 5vier.de. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ "Free Your Stuff" on Facebook: A sign against the throwaway society - N24.de. In: n24.de. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ "Free your stuff": Successful Facebook movement against waste - TV :: SWR TV :: Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz :: Homepage SWR.de. In: swr.de. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Give and take: In the Schleizer GiveBox - Schleiz. In: schleiz.otz.de. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .
- ↑ "fair division" in Berlin: 24-hour refrigerators for everyone - districts - Berlin - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved November 20, 2014 .